He is a Democratic candidate seeking to represent the 8th District of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives. The seat is being vacated by Chris Van Hollen, who is running for the Senate seat vacated by Barbara Mikulski.[4]

Campaign for Congress

The Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post reported that Raskin announced his campaign on April 19, 2015, stating that,"[m]y ambition is not to be in the political center, it is to be in the moral center."[9][10] The Baltimore Sun also reported in October 2015 that Raskin has received more financial support from voters within his district than any other non-incumbent Democratic candidate in the country.[11]

A former board member of FairVote, Raskin introduced and sponsored the first bill in the country for the National Popular Vote, a plan for an interstate compact to provide for the first popular presidential election in American history.[16]

In March 1, 2006, during a Maryland State Senate hearing regarding same-sex marriage, Raskin, speaking as a constitutional law expert, told a lawmaker, "People place their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution; they don't put their hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."[17][18][19]

Author

Raskin is the author of We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and about Students,[21] and Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People,[22] Raskin, Maryam Ahranjani, and Andrew G. Ferguson co-authored Youth Justice in America.[23]

References

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